Organizational Communication

Research Associate

Since October 2014: Researcher at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies at Freie Universität Berlin within the DFG-project "Networked Media Government Relations."

July 2013 – September 2014: Communications Manager at ESMT European School of Management and Technology in Berlin.

May 2009 – February 2013: Political researcher in the press and research office of the Fianna Fáilparty in the Irish parliament.

September 2005 – November 2008: Media researcher (TV and radio).

2004 - 2005: Masters of Arts in International Relations at Dublin City University, Ireland. Master’s thesis on the topic "The relationship between media and government: who influences whom? A content analysis study of the kidnapping of Kenneth Bigley during the Iraq War."

Murphy, K., Kocks, J.N. & Raupp, J (2016, September): Different Governments, Different Approaches: Political Participation in the Online Sphere. Paper accepted for the General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), Prague.

Kocks, J.N., Raupp, J. & Murphy, K. (2016, September): Egos, elites and social capital: Analyzing media-government relations from a network perspective. Paper accepted for the General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), Prague.

Murphy, K., Kocks, J.N. & Raupp, J (2016, June): Social networks and government organisations: a study of online communications in Germany and Great Britain. Paper accepted for the Conference in Comparative Political Communication at the ISCC, CNRS-Paris-Sorbonne-UPMC, Paris.

Murphy, K., Kocks, J.N. & Raupp, J (2015, July): Conceptualizing a framework for effective government communications in a new media age. Presentation accepted for the 22nd International Public Relations Research Symposium (BLEDCOM), Ljubljana.

Kocks, J.N., Raupp, J. & Murphy, K. (2015, July): From Partisanship to Perpetual Neutrality? Tracing the History of Governmental PR in Germany. Paper accepted for the annual conference 'Hegemony or Resistance? On the Ambigous Power of Communication' of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Montreal.